Cooperation Between Early Churches
The Cooperation Between Early Churches: An interesting phenomenon happened in the early church. There were many local congregations and yet they shared a common mission and identity. They knew and had kinship with one another. (Romans 16:16; 1 Corinthians 16:19) They often sent workers and greetings with one another. The plural word “churches” appears over 25 times in the New Testament. They were united and not segmented. Local congregations had their own autonomous structure and